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Sexisme og rasisme i Kants etikk
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-12-12)Den «offisielle» etikken til Kant, slik den presenteres i de etiske hovedverkene fra den kritiske og sen-kritiske perioden, er universalistisk og upartisk. Universalistisk vil si at alle mennesker er inkluderte i det moralske fellesskapet, mens upartisk betyr at etikken gjelder uavhengig av blant annet kjønnsmessige og etniske skillelinjer. I flere førkritiske verk, samt i Antropologiforelesningene, ... -
Seksuelle rettigheter og ideen om nøytralitet: Fra Habermas til Nussbaum og tilbake igjen
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-12-12)Med utgangspunkt i en kritisk sammenligning av Jürgen Habermas og Martha Nussbaum drøfter jeg hvordan den politiske filosofen bør begrunne seksuelle rettigheter og hvorvidt en slik begrunnelse bør tilstrebe nøytralitet i forhold til religiøse, kulturelle eller andre kontroversielle doktriner og livsformer. På den ene siden hevder jeg at Habermas’ prosedurale rettighetsbegrunnelse lider av et moralsk ... -
Migration and discrimination: exploring the pathways of a more integrated research agenda
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-01)This special issue consists of four articles, contributed by David Owen; Désirée Lim, Sahar Akhtar and (as co-authors) Mollie Gerver, Miranda Simon, Patrick Lown and Dominik Duell. These contributions address issues related to migration policies with the aim of bringing normative theories of migration and discrimination into dialogue. These theories describe the various types of discrimination ... -
Annotated Bibliography Postcolonial/Decolonial Texts 1952-2020
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2024)The creation of this systematic bibliography of postcolonial and decolonial texts was supported generously by the department for gender equality and diversity (Likestillings- og mangfoldsutvalget) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2020. The overarching project aimed at analyzing power relations in the classroom of a university in Sápmi. The bibliography provides a rough chronological overview ... -
Kant on Peace and Conflict
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)On the one hand, Immanuel Kant is famous for his idea of “perpetual peace”; on the other hand, he argues that human beings need antagonism and conflict in order to develop and flourish. By emphasising both the requirement of peace and the productivity of conflict, Kant pays tribute to the inherent ambivalence of human nature that his well-known phrase of man’s “unsociable sociability” (ungesellige ... -
Anti-immigrant backlash: the Democratic Dilemma for immigration policy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-01)Anti-immigrant backlash has emerged in recent years as a considerable threat to democracy. In many countries illiberal and anti-democratic political forces driven in part by anti-immigrant sentiment have damaged or threaten to damage the proper functioning of democratic institutions. Should policymakers try to avert this threat by implementing more restrictive immigration policy? If they do ... -
Consequentialism and Its Demands: The Role of Institutions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-17)Consequentialism is often criticized as being overly demanding, and this overdemandingness is seen as sufficient to reject it as a moral theory. This paper takes the plausibility and coherence of this objection—the Demandingness Objection—as a given. Our question, therefore, is how to respond to the Objection. We put forward a response relying on the framework of institutional consequentialism we ... -
Should We Increase Young People’s Voting Power?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-28)This paper argues that democratic collectives have reason to increase the voting power of their younger members. It first presents an intuitive case for weighted voting in general, before drawing support from a prominent principle of democratic inclusion – the all affected principle. On a plausible understanding of that principle, a decision may affect people to varying degrees, and this ... -
Substituted Decision-making
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)A core principle of medical ethics states that patients should be allowed to determine whether they wish to accept or refuse treatment, if they possess the relevant decision making capacity at the time treatment decisions need to be made. In cases where patients lack capacity to make decisions regarding their own treatment, substitute decision makers must make such decisions for them. This chapter ... -
Kann und soll der Wille zur Macht überwunden werden? Ein Versuch des späten Nietzsche
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-01)Das Prinzip des Willens zur Macht spielt von Beginn an, das heißt spätestens seit dem kurzen Stück über Homer’s Wettkampf, bis in Nietzsches letzte philosophische Texte hinein eine hervorgehobene Rolle. Doch es fällt auf, dass Nietzsche am Ende neben und gegenläufig zu diesem Prinzip ein Verständnis und eine Haltung dem Leben gegenüber zu konturieren sucht, die über den Willen zur Macht hinausweisen. ... -
Deontologischer Objektivismus? Ein Kommentar zu "Sinn im Leben"
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-01)Im Folgenden möchte ich die Hauptthese des Buches, „dass das sinnvolle Leben am intuitiv plausibelsten durch eine Theorie beschrieben werden kann, die sich als ‚deontologischer Objektivismus‘ bezeichnen lässt“ (P 1-2), kritisch beleuchten. Vor allem drei Fragen sollen meine Diskussion leiten: Was genau beinhaltet der von Markus Rüther vorgeschlagene „deontologische Objektivismus“? Kann er überzeugen? ... -
Ageing in Place and Autonomy: Is the ‘Age-Friendly’ City Initiative Too Elderly-Friendly?
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-05)This chapter discusses the ‘age-friendly cities’ initiative aimed at enhancing people’s opportunity to age in place. It presents an autonomy-based defence of the idea and examines the moral claim that the elderly can make in support of their ability to age in place. The chapter emphasizes, among other considerations, that ageing in place can have cognitive benefits through the routines and habits ... -
Who Needs to Tell the Truth? - Epistemic Injustice and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions for Minorities in Non-Transitional Societies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-08)Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have become a widely used tool to reconcile societies in the aftermath of widespread injustice or social and political conflict in a state. This article focuses on TRCs that take place in non-transitional societies in which the political and social structures, institutions, and power relations have largely remained in place since the time of injustice. ... -
Gender balance
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)Gender balance is defined as equal participation of women and men. Aiming for gender balance can be one pathway towards more equal, diverse, and inclusive societies. Gender balance can be achieved both vertically and horizontally within an organisation. Vertical gender balance is defined as an equal proportion of women and men in ranked positions of power. Horizontal gender balance is defined as an ... -
Epistemic injustice
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)Epistemic injustice groups together different phenomena that inhibit us from accessing or producing knowledge due to prejudices about certain groups. Epistemic injustice describes situations in which speakers’ knowledge is falsely discredited due to their group membership. It can also describe the lack of concepts for describing experiences, and the connected knowledge, of marginalised groups as ... -
LGBTQ+
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)This chapter discusses some of the challenges and potential solutions for better treatment and inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer students and staff) in higher education. The chapter provides a theoretical background on the understanding of the LGBTQ+ categories, as well as the ethical questions relating to the treatment of LGBTQ+ persons in contemporary societies. Specific ... -
Policing, Undercover Policing and ‘Dirty Hands’: The Case of State Entrapment
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024)Under a ‘dirty hands’ model of undercover policing, it inevitably involves situations where whatever the state agent does is morally problematic. Christopher Nathan argues against this model. Nathan’s criticism of the model is predicated on the contention that it entails the view, which he considers objectionable, that morally wrongful acts are central to undercover policing. We address this criticism, ... -
Reassessing the Needs for Carbon Dioxide Removal: Moral Implications of Alternative Climate Target Pathways
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-05)Non-technical summary. Scenarios compatible with the Paris agreement’s temperature goal of 1.5 °C involve carbon dioxide removal measures – measures that actively remove CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere – on a massive scale. Such large-scale implementations raise significant ethical problems. Van Vuuren et al. (2018), as well as the current IPCC scenarios, show that reduction in energy and or ... -
A Duty not to Remain Silent: Hypocrisy and the Lack of Standing not to Blame
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-20)A notable feature of our practice of blaming is that blamees can dismiss blame for their own blameworthy actions when the blamer is censuring them hypocritically and, as it is often put, lacks standing to blame them as a result. This feature has received a good deal of philosophical attention in recent years. By contrast, no attention has been given the possibility that, likewise, refraining from ... -
Some Problems for the Phenomenal Approach to Personal Identity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-17)I present some problems for phenomenal (i.e. consciousness-based) accounts of personal identity and egoistic concern. These accounts typically rely on continuity in the capacity for consciousness to explain how we survive ordinary periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep. I offer some thought experiments where continuity in the capacity for consciousness does not seem sufficient for ...
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